Support for coffee-mills



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SUPPORT FOR COFFEE MILLS. No. 348,984. Patented Sept. 14,- 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT DFFIQE.

BENJAMIN \VELLS MCOARTY AND FABIUS PETER GAGNE, OF HOUSTON,

TEXAS.

SUPPORT FOR COFFEE-MI LLS.

STEPEGIFIGATIQN orming part of Letters Patent No. 348,984, dated September 14, 1886. Application filed April 28, 1886. Serial No. 200,462. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, BENJAMIN WELLs Mo- CAR'LY and FA'BIUS PETER GAGNE, citizens of the United States, residing at Houston, in the county-of Harris and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Supports for Coffee-Mills, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvemcnls in supports for coiieemills; and itconsists of the peculiar and novel construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The object of our invention is to provide an improved support for hand coffee-mills, which can be readily disconnected for storage or transportation and easily and readily adjusted for use, and which shall furthermore be sim ple and strong in construction and cheap of manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is aperspective view of our improved support attached to a coffee-mill. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of the standard separated from the base. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the base; and Fig. 4 is a transverse section through the lower end of the vertical standard, the socket therefor, and the hinding-screw. 7

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures, A designates the mill proper, which is of the ordinary or any preferred form at present in use, and which is secured to a back plate or board, 13. The hopper of the mill is closed by a cover or lid, 1),- that is hinged to the upper edge of the back plate, so as to completely close the open mouth of the hopper; and it is further provided with a conducting spout or tube, I), that is secured to and depends downwardly from the lower edge of said back plate or board.

Theback plate and mill are carried and supported by a vertically-disposed standard, 0, having two laterally-extending arms, 0, at its upper end,through which are passed screws, or the like, to secure the back plate or board thereto, and the lower end of the standard is enlarged and made square, rectangular, or other angular form in crosssection, as at 0, so

that it firmlyaud snugly fits in a socket or opening formed in a bracket-lug, d, of the base D. This base D is made in a single easting,and comprises a tapering or cone shaped socket, D, and an annular ring or foot, D", that depends from the socket and is flared outwardly therefrom, and rests on the table or other place of support. The tapered socket is pro vided at its lower edges with an inwardlyprojecting flange or rim, 0, that serves to support a receptacle placed therein, and at its upper edge with an outwardly-projecting rim or flange, e, that serves a similar 'purposei. (2., to suspend a receptacle within the socket should it not be deep enough or fail to touch the lower flange, c. The bracketlug d is also cast integral with the base, and it is disposed atthc outer upper edge ofthe socket D of said base. This bracket-lug is provided with an open ended socket, which corresponds in shape to the shape of the enlarged lower end of the standard 0, and on one of its faces the bracket-lug has an enlargement, d',that is provided with a threaded opening, in which works the threaded shank of a bindingscrew, E, that bears against the enlarged end of the standard, which is fitted in the socket and serves to firmly and rigidly hold the same in place.

The operation of our invention is obvious. \Vhen it is desired to grind the coffee, it is poured into the'hopper and the crank or handie is operated byhand to rotate the burr, which reduces the coffee, and it is then discharged from the mill through the conducting tube or spout into thereceptacle F, which is fitted in and supported by the socket of the base. Vhen it is desired to store the mill away or pack the same for transportation, the vertical standard can be readily disconnected from the base by simply releasing the binding-screw and then lifting the lower end thereof from the bracket-lug, and the standard can also be readily disconnected fromthe back plate and the mill by removing the screws that pass through the lateral arms thereof, whereby the various parts can be closely packed together to occupy but a very small space.

, The parts can be readily and quickly put or adjusted together for use again when desired.

It will be observed that we provide an improved support for coffee mills which can be readily disconnected and put together,that the device is simple and strong in its construction, that it is thoroughly effective in Opera tion, itlldillOXpOllSlW} of manufacture.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a support for coffee-mills, the combination of the base having the socket and the projecting bracket-lug provided with the bindingscrew, and the standard adapted to carry the mill and rcinovably fitted in the bracketlug and held therein by the screw, substantially as described.

2. In a support for coffee-mills, the coml ination of the base having an open socket, the bracket-lug, and bindingscrew, a verticallydisposed standard titted in the bracket-lug and clamped therein by the biudingserew, and a back plate adapted to earry the mill and detachably secured to the standard substantially as described.

3. In a support for coffee mills, the combination of the base formed in asingle piece and having an open socket provided with the annular ilangesand the lateral bracket-lug having the binding-screw, the standard having the enlarged lower end and the lateral arms at its upper end, and the back plate removably secured to the arms of the standard and adapted to carry the mill, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

B ENJAMtN \VELLS McOA'lt'lY. FABIUS PETER HA (.l NE.

\Vitnesses:

PHILLIP O. (laoxn, JAMES Sxownituh 

